Month: June 2022

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden says parents and teachers must “speak up” and demand that Congress pass gun safety measures following recent deadly mass shootings in Texas and New York state. The first lady addressed the National PTA convention being held near Washington on Friday and said “it’s up to

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal appeals court says the NAACP has no standing to sue a Mississippi prosecutor accused of routinely rejecting Black jurors in criminal cases. District Attorney Doug Evans has been accused of routinely rejecting Black jurors because of their race — including in a high-profile

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press POINT PLEASANT BEACH, N.J. (AP) — Two Jersey Shore towns plan to have extra police on hand this weekend even though judges have blocked pop-up beach parties from happening there. In separate rulings Thursday, judges in Monmouth and Ocean counties issued rulings prohibiting the parties from taking place without organizers

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Two Uvalde city police officers told a sheriff’s deputy that they passed up a fleeting chance to shoot the gunman for fear of hitting children outside an elementary school where the gunman killed 21 people. The gunman went on to enter Robb Elementary School in Uvalde on May 24 and open

SHELBYVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A restaurant created by KFC founder Harland Sanders for his wife decades ago is for sale. The Claudia Sanders Dinner House in Shelbyville, Kentucky, hit the market this week. The sale of the 25,000-square-foot restaurant and banquet hall is being handled by Six Degrees Real Estate. The listing includes the trademark

By The Associated Press Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week. MOVIES — Multiverses are all the rage. Following its theatrical release in May, “Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness” arrives Wednesday on Disney+. In it, Benedict Cumberbatch returns

By MICHAEL PHILLIS, SETH BORENSTEIN and BRITTANY PETERSON RED LODGE, Montana (AP) — Just three months ago, the Yellowstone region like most of the West was dragging through an extended drought with little snow in the mountains and wildfire scars in Red Lodge from a year ago when the area was hit by 105-degree Fahrenheit

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian President Pedro Castillo appeared before national prosecutors to answer questions regarding an ongoing investigation in which he is accused of being the leader of an alleged criminal conspiracy that received bribes for public works contracts. Dozens of people shouted “criminal” at the president through megaphones, while he walked through the

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Prosecutors have accused a Las Vegas man of committing a hate crime by killing one person and wounding five at a mass shooting at a Taiwanese American church luncheon in California. The Orange County District Attorney’s Office said Friday that authorities added hate crime allegations to the murder and attempted

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. (AP) — About 20 students at a Michigan high school where four students were killed in a mass shooting say their constitutional rights to safety and education have been violated and that they want changes to ensure security at school, a law firm representing them said Friday.

By ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says Florida doctors will be able to order COVID-19 vaccines for children under 5 from the federal government. The announcement came after Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said the state would not order and distribute the shots in the state. The state was the only

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Securities and Exchange Commission moved closer Friday to a final rule that would dramatically alter what public companies tell shareholders about climate change — both the risks it poses to their operations and their own contributions to the problem. Public comment on the proposal has now

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark’s military says a Russian warship has violated its territorial waters. The Defense Command of the Danish armed forces says a Russian corvette entered Danish waters twice in the early hours of Friday near the Baltic Sea island of Christiansoe. In a statement, the Defense Command said the Russian vessel left

By DAVID BAUDER AP Entertainment Writer EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Hard to think of a better way for Paul McCartney to celebrate his 80th birthday than by singing “Glory Days” onstage with Bruce Springsteen or being serenaded by some 60,000 well-wishers. That’s right, the “cute Beatle” turns 80 on Saturday. It’s one of those

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has imposed sanctions on Nicaragua’s state-owned gold mining company and the president of its board of directors partly over the Central American nation’s ties to Russia. The Treasury Department says Friday’s sanctions were imposed, in part, because Nicaragua’s leaders are “deepening their relationship with Russia”

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday asked that a statewide grand jury be set up to examine networks that illegally smuggle people into the state as part of an investigation that also would focus on local governments that he says violate state law by adopting “sanctuary” policies. DeSantis filed a petition

PARIS (AP) — French film actor and amateur race car driver Jean-Louis Trintignant has died at age 91. Trintignant earned acclaim for his starring role in the Oscar-winning “A Man and a Woman” a half a century ago and went on to portray the brutality of aging in his later years. He died in his

LAKE OZARK, Mo. (AP) — Former NASCAR driver Clint Bowyer was involved in a crash that killed a pedestrian in southwest Missouri earlier this month. Police say Bowyer’s vehicle struck a woman walking on an exit ramp on June 5 near Osage Beach. Bowyer stopped immediately and called 911. Police say 47-year-old Mary Jane Simmons

MADRID (AP) — Officials say some 9,000 hectares of wooded hill land in northwestern Spain have been burnt by a wildfire that forced the evacuation of more than 650 people from eight villages. The country is suffering an unusually early heatwave. Officials say the blaze in the Sierra de Culebra mountain range in the province

By GRANT PECK Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — A legal official says a court in military-ruled Myanmar has sentenced a close colleague of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to 21 years in prison after finding him guilty of corruption. Zaw Myint Maung is a second vice president and spokesperson of Suu Kyi’s National League

By MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican narcos’ fascination with exotic animals was on display this week after a spider monkey dressed up as a drug gang mascot was killed in a shootout, a 450-pound (200 kilogram) tiger wandered the streets in the Pacific coast state of Nayarit, and a man died

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Making his first public appearance since the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection began its hearings laying bare his desperate attempts to subvert democracy and remain in power, former President Donald Trump on Friday lashed out at the committee as he continued to tease his

By VESELIN TOSHKOV Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — After just seven months in office, and now reduced to heading a minority government, Bulgaria’s liberal Prime Minister Kiril Petkov finds himself between a rock and a hard place over European Union enlargement amid the war in Ukraine. Russia’s invasion spurred the EU to speed up

By MUNIR AHMED Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — An international watchdog says it will keep Pakistan on a so-called “gray list” of countries that do not take full measures to combat money laundering and terror financing. However, the Financial Action Task Force raised hopes that Pakistan’s removal from the list would follow an upcoming visit

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — For decades, it was accepted wisdom in the casino industry that eliminating smoking would automatically lead to revenue declines and customer losses. But a new report examining how the coronavirus pandemic has changed gamblers’ habits says that may no longer be the case. The report

GENEVA (AP) — The organizer of the Eurovision Song Contest says that it will start talks with the BBC on possibly holding next year’s event in the U.K. after concluding that it can’t be held in Ukraine. Kyiv said it disagreed with the decision and called for “additional negotiations.” The event is traditionally staged by

By BERENICE BAUTISTA Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — What is art? Do awards make you a better artist? Are blockbuster movies only for pseudo-actors? These are some questions unleashed in “Official Competition,” a comedy by Argentine directors Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat starring Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas and Oscar Martínez in a battle of

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — President Vladimir Putin has said at Russia’s showpiece investment conference that the country’s economy will overcome sanctions that he called “reckless and insane.” Putin began his address Friday to the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum with a lengthy denunciation of countries that he contends want to weaken Russia, including the

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer U.S. airlines canceled high numbers of flights for a second straight day on Friday as they tried to recover from storms while accommodating growing crowds of summer vacationers. By early afternoon in the eastern U.S., airlines has scrubbed more than 1,100 flights after canceling more than 1,700 on Thursday,